Little Green football completes successful season

Wednesday

Nov 21, 2012 at 3:15 AM

FROM STAFF REPORTS

DOVER — The Dover Little Green 7th grade football team finished their regular season at 7-1 winning their games by a combined score of 190-32.

Their lone loss was to the Portsmouth Clippers in the second game of their season by the score of 20-12. From that point on, the Dover defense did not allow a single point in their remaining games finishing their regular season with six consecutive shutouts. The defense was the strength of the team led by Ryan Coleman, Justin Colizzi, Andrew Geppert, Noah Schwartz, Erik Stephens, and Jared Turgeon.

The offense was successful all year due to the solid blocking up front on the line by lineman Schwartz, C.J. Proulx, Jacob Couture, Risten Drew, Julian Nicholson and ends James Fithian, Kyle Letourneau, Nicholas Kurtz, and Stephens. In the first round of the Seacoast Junior League playoffs, Dover faced the Exeter Bluehawks and won by the score of 22-0. The Dover offense had touchdown runs by Geppert, Colizzi, and Dominic Silverio while Carson Webb completed passes to Fithian and Silverio for the two 2-point conversions. The Dover defense had another all-around strong performance by the entire unit to earn the shutout.

In their final game, the Little Green faced Portsmouth again and this time won a tough hard-fought game by the score of 14-8. Portsmouth led off the scoring with a touchdown run by Zach Ludd in the first quarter. Quarterback Peter O’Keefe completed a pass to Will Conner for the 2-point conversion staking Portsmouth to a 8-0 lead. Late in the second quarter, Letourneau intercepted a pass and returned it for a Dover touchdown. The 2-point conversion attempt failed and the score was 8-6 at halftime.

In the third quarter, Stephens blocked a punt that set up Dover inside Portsmouth’s 20 yard line. A few plays later, Caleb Bolden scored on a run up the middle followed by a Webb run for the conversion giving Dover the lead at 14-8. Late in the fourth quarter, Portsmouth had an opportunity to score with a first and goal from the 1 yard line but the Dover defense made a goal-line stand led by Stephens and Geppert. Dover took over the ball on downs inside their own 5 and on third and long, Coleman broke a 40 yard run to gain Dover some breathing room. Portsmouth had one last chance to score with just over a minute remaining in the game but Colizzi recovered a fumble on fourth down to seal the win for Dover.